Sara Smith

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Sara Smith is a transdisciplinary choreographer and librarian who works across a range of creative practices. Sara creates speculative-documentary performances and other works that explore interconnection and the poetics and politics of embodied and archival research. Their working process is rooted in physical practices of micro-attention and relational transformation.

Sara's artworks have been seen and heard in theaters, museums, studios, public parks, recreation center basements, and cloud-based platforms. Sara has been a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship award in Choreography, and of support from The LEF Foundation, Maine Arts Commission, NEFA, the Puffin Foundation, and residency fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hewnoaks, and The American Antiquarian Society. From 2010-2017 Sara edited KINEBAGO, a forum for writing by and about New England dance makers and movement researchers. 

Primary Discipline

Multi-Disciplinary

Additional Disciplines

Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Activities

Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Performance / Concert / Reading
Exhibitions
Film Showings

Awards

  • Puffin Foundation Grant (2023)
  • Hewnoaks residency (2018)
  • New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) tour-planning grant (2017)
  • Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship award for choreography (2016)
  • American Antiquarian Society Creative Research Fellowship (2015)
  • Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Finalist award for choreography (2014)
  • Yaddo residency fellowship (2012)
  • LEF New England Foundation Contemporary Work Fund Grant (2008)
  • Maine Arts Commission Good Idea Grant (2007)
  • MacDowell Colony residency fellowship (2006)
  • Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Grant (2000)

Additional Information

  • Is a Teaching Artist
  • Is a Touring Artist
  • Approx. 6 events per year
  • Geographic Reach: Surrounding States/Region
  • Seasons active: Year round